HICL Infrastructure (HICL) Competitors

Pershing Square (LON:PSH) and HICL Infrastructure (LON:HICL) are both mid-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, risk, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and profitability.

Which has better earnings and valuation, PSH or HICL?

Pershing Square has higher revenue and earnings than HICL Infrastructure. Pershing Square is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than HICL Infrastructure, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Pershing Square	£3.57B	2.29	£2.71B	£953.80	3.75
HICL Infrastructure	£105.30M	22.01	£101.36M	£5.10	22.83

Which has more volatility and risk, PSH or HICL?

Pershing Square has a beta of 0.97, meaning that its stock price is 3% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, HICL Infrastructure has a beta of 0.3, meaning that its stock price is 70% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is PSH or HICL more profitable?

HICL Infrastructure has a net margin of 96.27% compared to Pershing Square's net margin of 75.97%. Pershing Square's return on equity of 17.71% beat HICL Infrastructure's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Pershing Square	75.97%	17.71%	11.83%
HICL Infrastructure	96.27%	3.24%	0.58%

Does the media favor PSH or HICL?

In the previous week, Pershing Square had 4 more articles in the media than HICL Infrastructure. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Pershing Square and 1 mentions for HICL Infrastructure. HICL Infrastructure's average media sentiment score of 0.55 beat Pershing Square's score of 0.13 indicating that HICL Infrastructure is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Pershing Square	0 Very Positive mention(s)	1 Positive mention(s)	4 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
HICL Infrastructure	0 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PSH or HICL?

HICL Infrastructure received 166 more outperform votes than Pershing Square when rated by MarketBeat users.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Pershing Square	N/A	N/A
HICL Infrastructure	Outperform Votes 166 72.81%	Underperform Votes 62 27.19%

Do insiders & institutionals believe in PSH or HICL?

6.6% of Pershing Square shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 54.7% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.0% of Pershing Square shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of HICL Infrastructure shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Is PSH or HICL a better dividend stock?

Pershing Square pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. HICL Infrastructure pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Pershing Square pays out 4.8% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. HICL Infrastructure pays out 156.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

Summary

Pershing Square beats HICL Infrastructure on 9 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.